‘Godwin versus Godwin’: Negotiating the War of Ideas in Charles Lloyd’s Isabel, A Tale

IF 0.3 2区 文学 0 LITERATURE Romanticism Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.3366/rom.2023.0610
M. O. Grenby
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Charles Lloyd remains on the fringe of Romanticism, remembered for his relationships with Coleridge, Southey, Lamb, De Quincey and Hays, and known chiefly for his novel Edmund Oliver (1798). This essay investigates the complex history and meanings of Lloyd’s other, entirely neglected novel, Isabel, A Tale. Using unpublished correspondence the essay establishes that, although published in 1820, Isabel was printed in 1810, and written in 1798–99. Two manuscripts of the novel have been located. These are for the first time analysed to shed light on Lloyd’s intentions. Intriguingly, the manuscripts give the novel the sub-title ‘Godwin versus Godwin’, as well as positioning it as a response to Mary Wollstonecraft. These clues, with an unpublished preface, support a reading of Isabel as an attempt to use Wollstonecraft’s work, and her life as written by William Godwin, to develop a modus vivendi allowing radical social critique to co-exist with a defence of chastity and marriage.
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“戈德温对戈德温”:查尔斯·劳埃德的《伊莎贝尔的故事》中的思想战争谈判
查尔斯·劳埃德仍然处于浪漫主义的边缘,他与柯勒律治、索塞、兰姆、德·昆西和海斯的关系被人们记住,他最出名的是他的小说《埃德蒙·奥利弗》(1798)。本文研究了劳埃德另一部完全被忽视的小说《伊莎贝尔的故事》的复杂历史和意义。通过使用未发表的信件,这篇文章确定,尽管《伊莎贝尔》出版于1820年,但它是在1810年出版的,写作于1798-99年。这部小说的两份手稿已经找到了。这是第一次分析劳埃德的意图。有趣的是,手稿给了小说一个副标题“戈德温对戈德温”,并将其定位为对玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特的回应。这些线索,加上一篇未发表的序言,支持了对伊莎贝尔的解读,认为她试图利用沃斯通克拉夫特的作品,以及威廉·戈德温(William Godwin)所写的她的生活,来发展一种权当权当的方式,允许激进的社会批判与对贞节和婚姻的捍卫共存。
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期刊介绍: The most distinguished scholarly journal of its kind edited and published in Britain, Romanticism offers a forum for the flourishing diversity of Romantic studies today. Focusing on the period 1750-1850, it publishes critical, historical, textual and bibliographical essays prepared to the highest scholarly standards, reflecting the full range of current methodological and theoretical debate. With an extensive reviews section, Romanticism constitutes a vital international arena for scholarly debate in this liveliest field of literary studies.
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